Bug Issue: I can't engage in Diplomacy

[Kingof21]

So I've had this game for a while now and have had no problems, but as of today I suddenly now have two issues, one minor and one major.

The minor issue is the audio in the opening cut-scenes for each faction: they are significantly more muffled than the rest of the game's audio.

The major issue is my ability to engage in diplomacy. When I select the terms, they do not show up in the bottom columns, and the option to make an offer is left unselectable. However, the disposition bar still reacts to my choices if I select any of the terms.

This also only seems to happen with any new games I made. Previous games do not have this issue at all. I only have one expansion pack installed before this occurred, but even then it still worked out fine.

Is there something I can do to fix this?

[The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales]

Thank you for the report. I've already passed this to the team, but do you have a save you could share with us?

[Kingof21]

Yes, I still have the save file where the problem first started up. Though curious enough, when I created a new game tonight, the problem was gone: intro cut-scenes had the right audio level, and diplomacy worked.

EDIT: Apparently, diplomacy works if I add in a contribution from both parties, but not if I just choose one from my list.

[The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales]

If you could upload the save where Diplomacy is broken and share the link, we'd be grateful, as it could help us track down the cause of the issue.

[crimsonlegion]

Hello.
Well, i seem to have something close to those problems on the diplomacy screen, but i am going to try to be a bit more precise.
I am doing the tutorial two times (one online, one offline, cause i do not have the web everywhere).
In the inline one, i am still in cold war with Leaper (Cravers), and few days ago, i was succesfully made a peace with Doria (Lumeris). The Saint something were destroyed. At this time, i had no problem with the interface.
Today, i try it offline, to test some other decisions. I am at war with the Cravers, conclude an alliance with the Saints, but, on the Lumeris screen, i have about the problems evocated in the main post : when i click on positive choices, they do not display under the "My Contribution" column. Sometimes, they are taken in account, and sometimes no, because the possible choices in the "My term" are actualised and the positive/negative opinion bar just under the list is also actualised. More than often, the reset/suggest terms/make an offer buttons remain disabled. And if i click on a "negative" (Declare war, cold war, and so on), they are displayed in the "My contribution" column (but if i click on Reset button, it is not actualised, and it remain displayed, and same thing on the Make an offer button which keep the Influence cost dispkayed).
And just right now, i test in on my online game, and it do exactly the same thing, and for the same IA player (Lumeris).
I do not know, maybe it is linked to the last DLC which was released a few day ago ?

[Baggins]

(sorry for my english, I'm french)
I have the same problem, my diplomatie is broken, how I send my save for help you ?

[The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales]

You could use a file-hosting service, or you can join Games2Gether and add it to this thread about the issue[www.games2gether.com].

[KrackleJak]

Yeah my diplomacy does not work, in fact it removes the visuals of the galaxy and only show the faction character without options and names of systems in the background. I will try to post screen shot but as of right now my save won't load.

[KrackleJak]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1866025951

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1866025940

[Ebonbolt]

This started happening in my current game. Diplomacy screen was working normally then at some point I stopped being able to see my offers.

[Crystalis]

Running the latest expansion and V1.5.3 S5 GOLD-Public - I have a bug that seems to be this bug or related to it. No I cannot post in the Games2Gether thread because when I tried to create an account just now I got some weird 'page broken' error. I'll try again later when I'm on another network, as we've been having intermittent loading issues due to firewall utilization here.

The details of my trade bug are as follows : I am in an alliance with 2 AI factions. I can open the screen to trade with them, but no options exist to add to the trade on either of our lists. If I select a specific thing like 'science' instead of leaving it at the default 'all' screen then the items show up. HOWEVER if I click to add something to the list, it never appears on the list, nor can I propose the offer. This is for ALLIED factions, and appears to be the same for another alliance we have an non-aggression pact with.

I am at war with a faction, if I try to trade with them, I do see the ability to propose a true.

I am at the default 'cold war' state with yet another faction in the game and trading appears to be completely normal w/them. All items show up when entering into the trade window. I didn't think to try and actually trade, but it looks normal when attempting to do so.

So it would appear your diplomacy state with the AI faction seems to be what is influencing your ability to see/trade with them, at least in my case.

[The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales]

Thank you for the detailed report, Crystalis. It does sound a lot like the issue, and we're working on it. We may even have a fix for this in the upcoming patch preview build, but I am not 100% positive on that.

[arrak]

This is how i describe the two bugs.
When bribing: in top left window list, i click the resource i would like to give as present
to other faction.
The resource does not appear in the bottom left of the diplomacy window, where i could
before click how much of the resource i want to give, but also all disappear from the
what i have of it in the top of window.
The button to conclude the action thus stays "grey´d out" (inactive)

The second bug, in the diplomacy window is linked to the first one:
When i want to tell an AI faction to stay out of my influence sphere:
Open deplomacy window....click "talk bubble" at top right......click "remove
yourself from my influence spheres.....button at right bottom to conclude transaction
stay grey´d out (inactive), which game-play-wise only leaves me the option to remove
the AI physically from my influence spheres.....

Notes 1: Bug appeared when Penumbra DLC automatically appeared active

Notes 2: Bug remained to be present after deinstalling Penumbra.

That tells me that the faulty code remained, i could be wrong though.....
The "mistake" is, in the destination, of the "object" being clicked (prioritized)
(and only if the chosen object "arives" at its preordained destiny, can it trigger
the "send action"

[Seedy]

I noticed the diplo screen appears to function correctly for a faction that I met before the last patch, but the subsequent faction nothing shows up below, when you click stuff. Additionally, the one that appears to work, doesn't actually. Maybe the "get out of my systems" demand doesn't do anything normally, but when he does it to me my ship vanishes, his just stay.